The officers who respond are usually the same officers who respond to no-knock arrests. Most no-knock arrests and the training that accompanies are is part of the War on Drugs and War on Terror umbrella. War on Terror supplies them with military grade equipment and War on Drugs justifies training and practicing these drills. You know throwing flash grenades in.
* 62 percent of the SWAT raids surveyed were to conduct searches for drugs.
* Just under 80 percent were to serve a search warrant, meaning eight in 10 SWAT raids were not initiated to apprehend a school shooter, hostage taker, or escaped felon (the common justification for these tactics), but to investigate someone still only suspected of committing a crime.
* In fact, just 7 percent of SWAT raids were “for hostage, barricade, or active shooter scenarios.”
* In at least 36 percent of the SWAT raids studies, no contraband of any kind was found. The report notes that due to incomplete police reports on these raids this figure could be as high as 65 percent.
SWAT tactics are disproportionately used on people of color.
* 65 percent of SWAT deployments resulted in some sort of forced entry into a private home, by way of a battering ram, boot, or some sort of explosive device. In over half those raids, the police failed to find any sort of weapon, the presence of which was cited as the reason for the violent tactics.
* Ironically (or perhaps not), searches to serve warrants on people suspected of drug crimes were more likely to result in forced entry than raids conducted for other purposes.
* Though often justified for rare incidents like school shootings or terrorist situations, the armored personnel vehicles police departments are getting from the Pentagon and through grants from the Department of Homeland Security are commonly used on drug raids.
I'm not defending no-knock raids, over-utilization of SWAT teams, flash grenades, police militarization, shooting dogs, the drug war, etc.
All I'm saying is that spoofing a call to the cops that says "I just killed my family, and am about to shoot any cop that shows up" is dangerous as hell no matter what the police are armed with. Cops are going to show up, they're going to fear for their lives, and they're going to treat the victim as a violent threat.
EDIT:
Case in point just this morning saw this article:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/06/24/n...
* 62 percent of the SWAT raids surveyed were to conduct searches for drugs.
* Just under 80 percent were to serve a search warrant, meaning eight in 10 SWAT raids were not initiated to apprehend a school shooter, hostage taker, or escaped felon (the common justification for these tactics), but to investigate someone still only suspected of committing a crime.
* In fact, just 7 percent of SWAT raids were “for hostage, barricade, or active shooter scenarios.”
* In at least 36 percent of the SWAT raids studies, no contraband of any kind was found. The report notes that due to incomplete police reports on these raids this figure could be as high as 65 percent. SWAT tactics are disproportionately used on people of color.
* 65 percent of SWAT deployments resulted in some sort of forced entry into a private home, by way of a battering ram, boot, or some sort of explosive device. In over half those raids, the police failed to find any sort of weapon, the presence of which was cited as the reason for the violent tactics.
* Ironically (or perhaps not), searches to serve warrants on people suspected of drug crimes were more likely to result in forced entry than raids conducted for other purposes.
* Though often justified for rare incidents like school shootings or terrorist situations, the armored personnel vehicles police departments are getting from the Pentagon and through grants from the Department of Homeland Security are commonly used on drug raids.